Norman McLaren Quotes
Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.
Quotes to Explore
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.
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We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.
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It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.
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An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
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The Church had its own law code and its own courts of law which were supreme over the clergy, and had large rights of jurisdiction even over the laity, so that it could develop and give effect to its own ideas of law and right.
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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
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Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.
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When I first asked my boxing coach, two-time Olympic champion Hector Vinent, what made the Cuban style of fighting distinct from the rest of the world, he smiled and told me to sit on a bench in Prado and watch the Cuban women walk.
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The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understand that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.
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Of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up, we want it to go down.
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The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.
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The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.
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What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.
